Subject Secular history Role Historian | Name Procopius Procopius Died 565 AD | |
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Occupation Barrister and legal adviser Notable works The Wars of JustinianThe Buildings of JustinianSecret History Books Secret history of Procopius, Procopius, Of the Buildings of Justinian, Secret History, Anekdota Similar People Theodora, Jordanes, Anna Komnene, Charles William Wilson, Constantine the Great | ||
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Procopius of Caesarea (Greek: Προκόπιος ὁ Καισαρεύς Prokopios ho Kaisareus, Latin: Procopius Caesariensis; c. 500 – c. 554 AD) was a prominent late antique scholar from Palaestina Prima. Accompanying the Roman general Belisarius in the wars of the Emperor Justinian, he became the principal Byzantine historian of the 6th century, writing the Wars (or Histories), the Buildings of Justinian and the now-celebrated (and infamous) Secret History. He is commonly held to be the last major historian of the ancient Western world.
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- Procopius roman emperor usurper 363 366 a d biography of very rare ancient roman emperor where to
- Procopius Wars of Justinian Pt 1
- Life
- Writings
- The Wars of Justinian
- Secret History
- The Buildings of Justinian
- Context
- List of selected works
- References
Procopius' Wars of Justinian (Pt. 1)
Life
Apart from his own writings, the main source for Procopius' life is an entry in the Suda, a Byzantine encyclopaedia, written sometime after 975, which tells everything about his early life. He was a native of Caesarea in the Roman province Palaestina Prima. He would have received a conventional élite education in the Greek classics and then rhetoric, perhaps at the famous School of Gaza, may have attended law school, possibly at Berytus (modern Beirut) or Constantinople, and became a rhetor (barrister or advocate). He evidently knew Latin, as was natural for a man with legal training. In 527, the first year of Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian's reign, he became the adsessor (legal adviser) for